Ben’s Book Club with Ella Baxter

Name: Ben’s Book Club with Ella Baxter
Start: 2025-01-28T19:30:00+11:00
End: 2025-01-28T20:30:00+11:00
Location: Virtual

Join Ben Hobson in conversation with author Ella Baxter to discuss her darkly funny and intense novel ‘Woo Woo’.

Tuesday January 28th, at 7:30PM AEDT

During this digital book club, guests will have the opportunity to ask questions, interact with the authors, and enjoy a bookish discussion. Ben’s Book Club is a
free monthly digital book club – hosted by Ben Hobson – brought to you via Libby, the library reading app. The Zoom link will be emailed to all attendees upon registering.

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This month’s featured title, ‘Woo Woo’, is available to borrow from Libby with no waitlists or holds! Download Libby and find your local library to start reading:

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About Ella Baxter:

Ella Baxter has had poetry published in Spineless Wonders, Gargouille Literary Journal, and Bowen St Press. Her sculptures have been exhibited in site specific locations around Victoria, and in her spare time, she runs a small business making bespoke death shrouds. Her debut novel, New Animal, was published by Allen and Unwin in 2021. ‘Woo Woo’ is her second novel.

About ‘Woo Woo’:

Sabine returned from the shops carrying a bag containing an effortless pair of Christian Wijnants fringed trousers and Ann Demeulemeeter Crinkle Nero boots. The sales assistant had agreed that the combination made Sabine look exactly like an artist. ‘A conceptual artist?’ Sabine asked, and the sales assistant said, ‘Or an actual artist.’

Sabine is having a moment. Her new exhibition, is opening soon and, as her gallerist says, ‘Hell is an artist three days before their exhibition opens.’ But it’s not only this coming milestone that is causing Sabine to melt down.

She is being stalked. As exhibition day draws closer, so too does the man who has been watching her. As his approaches become more overt and threatening, Sabine’s fear amplifies and transforms into something feral and primal. And then things start to get really strange.

Darkly funny, intense and unsettling, Woo Woo is an astonishing and unflinching dissection of creativity and obsession, love and passion, vengeance and rage. Nothing will prepare you for this literary firestorm from the author of the internationally acclaimed debut New Animal.